Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/81 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.315-325 (Odd)
with attached verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to
Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No
325)

GV II

Shops with offices over, and attached verandah. 1898, altered.
By T Hodge; altered. Red brick with sandstone and red
terracotta dressings, roof concealed but probably slate.
Eclectic style with Moorish features at second floor.
Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 4 bays, the upper floors with brick
pilasters defining the bays, each bay with a moulded brick
corbel table but the outer bays slightly taller and treated as
turrets, with elaborate enrichment to the tops, including
tourelles with twisted stone shafts and carved tops with onion
finials, and brick machicolation between these with moulded
stone cresting.
The ground floor has C20 shop fronts; the first floor has
large rectangular 4-light bay windows in the outer bays, with
transoms, cusped enrichment to the top lights, decorated
friezes and dentilled cornices (formerly similar bay windows
in the centre bays replaced with C20 transomed windows); the
second floor has Moorish horseshoe arched windows arranged
1:2:2:1, those in the centre coupled, with pointed stone
arches and those in the outer bays larger and with banded
circular arches, all with enriched colonnettes, and the
surface of the walls above them filled with patterned
terracotta tiling.
The attached verandah, of 4 bays, has cast-iron columns with
acanthus enrichment to the pedestals, volute caps, shallow
arched brackets to the beam with roses in the spandrels, plain
fascia with cresting, and curved glass roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 309-313 adjoining to the left (qv) and
No.331 to the right (qv); and the verandah is part of the
series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3361017354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659878

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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